Tokyo -- Toshiba Corporation and Digital Fashion Ltd. (DFL), an Osaka
based developer of software for the fashion industry, today announced
an agreement to create a 3-dimensional fashion simulation system that
will allow virtual modeling and coordination of clothes, cosmetics and
accessories in real time. The system will capture images of people, outfit
them in the virtual clothes of their choice, and then display naturalistic
images in real time, including movement of the person and the clothes.
The system will provide a new level of IT-based support for trying, fitting,
modeling and designing clothes, and for coordinating outfits with different
styles of makeup and accessories.

Toshiba is an industry leader in 3D image processing while DFL is a pioneer
in applying digital know-how to the world of fashion, including clothes
coordination and makeup simulation. In developing the new simulation system
the companies will draw on their respective strengths to take virtual
modeling of clothes and cosmetics to a new level. Toshiba will deliver
expertise in image-processing hardware, software and LSIs, DFL the software
for simulating clothing in real time.

While current modeling and fitting systems present static, two-dimensional
images of people trying on clothes, the new simulation system will offer
3D images in which movement in front of a display equipped with cameras
is reproduced in real time, along with the textures, shades and real appearance
of the chosen material and clothing. Using the simulation system will
offer the same sense of reality as a real mirror. Commercialization of
the system is expected in 2006.

Powerful image processing is an essential technology for coming generations
of products. In developing the new simulation system with DFL, Toshiba
will take image processing to the next level in terms of capabilities
and performance.

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